The Canadian Real Estate InvestorCanada's Budget 2025 and its impact on housing policy. The hosts critique the $25 billion housing investment as insufficient, noting it includes infrastructure conditions, a limited GST rebate, immigration cuts, and controversial OAS spending — while the construction industry warns of job losses.
- The federal HST rebate on new homes up to $1 million only helps about 20,000 buyers per year nationwide — essentially a political soundbite rather than a broad affordability solution.
- BILD and the Large Urban Centre Alliance criticize the budget for relying on backward-looking data while new-home sales have collapsed 67-82% across major markets, warning that 100,000 construction jobs are at risk.
